Acoustical Sheetmetal Company (ASC) is the gateway for data centers. While first started in Virginia Beach as STECA, and subsequently ASI (2007). In 2019, it was acquired by RTK Family Capital LLC and Young Capital Partners LLC private investment firms.
2025 September – City Council cosigns on the illegal carve-out at Hudome Way, total of 44 acres and 550,000 sq. ft.
2022 October – Recipient of the illegal carveout of agricultural land to industrial, additional 135,000 sq. ft.
2021 May – Hudome Way campus opens.
2020 July – $15.8M from VEDP for new campus off Hudome Way below the Green Line, 100,000 sq. ft.
2019 February 1 – New ASC (no former owners involved) RTK announces a Richmond-based Margaret Shaia as CEO, board member, and CEO.
2019 January 2 – “Acoustical Sheetmetal Company LLC” registered with Virginia SCC, ID S7959051.
2018-2019 – ASI is acquired by RTK Family Capital LLC and Young Capital Partners LLC, both Richmond investment firms who, “avoided a formal sale process, networking quietly through a trusted advisor for a buyer with ‘no intention of reselling.’”
Late 2018 – original owners retire after 25 years.
2007 – located at Corporate Landing Parkway, 2600 Production Road, as Acoustical Sheetmetal Incorporated (ASI), 5 acres 100,000 sq. ft. facility.
1990s – STECA owner Dieter Steinhoff
